Year 7 English – Term 1 (WA Curriculum): Language Foundations and Text Analysis

What this unit covers

In Term 1, Year 7 English in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Language Foundations and Text Analysis”.

Students explore how language creates personal and social identities, analyse text structures and language features, and develop understanding of how texts vary according to purpose and audience.

Lesson sequence (30 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Exploring Personal Identity Through Language Choices
2. How Language Creates Group Belonging and Identity
3. Analysing Dialogue That Reveals Character in Comics
4. Building Vocabulary for Evaluating Texts
5. Emotional Response Words: Shock, Fear, Anger and Happiness
6. Critical Assessment of Evidence and Source Reliability
7. Understanding Evaluative Metalanguage: Rigorous and Biased
8. Identifying Trustworthy and Accurate Sources
9. Text Structure in Book and Film Reviews
10. Moving from Description to Summary to Judgement
11. Analysing Persuasive Text Structures
12. Language Features in Health Awareness Posters
13. How Authors Position Readers Through Text Features
14. Examining Sentence Structures for Purpose
15. Analysing How Vocabulary Shapes Meaning
16. Comparing Text Structures Across Different Genres
17. Introduction to Cohesive Devices in Texts
18. Using Connectives to Build Logical Arguments
19. Analysing Paragraph Structure in Informative Texts
20. How Purpose Affects Language Choices
21. Exploring Formal vs Informal Language Registers
22. Analysing Language in Digital and Print Texts
23. Understanding Audience and Purpose Relationships
24. Creating Texts for Different Purposes
25. Evaluating Effectiveness of Language Choices
26. Text Analysis: Identifying Purpose and Audience
27. Comparing Language Features Across Text Types
28. Writing for Specific Purposes and Audiences
29. Peer Review and Constructive Feedback Skills
30. Synthesising Language Analysis Skills

Curriculum codes in this unit

Content codes:

Reading the codes: WA codes (the ones starting with WA) pack the year level, learning area, strand and content number into one string, while the national Australian Curriculum v9 uses a different anatomy that starts with AC9 — same content family, different labels. Our complete WA Curriculum guide decodes both, character by character.

Planning notes for Term 1

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 1 runs from Monday 2 February to Thursday 2 April — 9 weeks for WA public schools. With 30 lessons in this unit, that leaves breathing room for assessment, moderation and the weeks that disappear to carnivals, camps and public holidays — plan the assessable work to land two to three weeks before the end of term rather than in the final week.